It wasn't clear how the government's rejection of GM and Chrysler's "Viability Plans" would effect the seperate requests for funding under the Department of Energy loan guarantee program. Well, now we know: the answer is no.  The legislation that created the loan guarantee program was created as a seperate program before the GM and Chrysler bailouts and before the financial sector crisis that began in September. No matter; the text of the original bill specifies that the companies receiving the money must be "financially viable". The government has already determined that the companies were not viable before, so that settles this matter. GM had requested $10.3 billion and Chrysler had requested $6 billion. Given that Ford didn't take of the bailout money, they still qualify for the loan money, of